Southaven nurse shot at hospital

Suspect arrested; victim's condition extremely critical

A Southaven woman was critically injured Friday morning in an apparent domestic shooting in the parking lot of a Memphis hospital.

Friends identified the victim as a nurse who is in her early 30s. She was in extremely critical condition Friday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, where she was airlifted after the shooting.

Police took a suspect into custody shortly afterward.

According to Memphis police, an armed man shot the victim in the parking lot of Delta Medical Center, 3000 Getwell, just before 9 a.m.

Police said they believed the shooting was the result of an ongoing altercation between the suspect and victim.

Memphis police sealed off a large section of the hospital's parking lot with crime tape as they questioned witnesses and investigated the scene.

Evidence tags and a woman's shoe lay near a white sedan on the east side of the lot as detectives clustered nearby.

Two friends of the victim, Marcus Gray and Roderic Hinton, came to the hospital after they learned about the shooting.

Both men said the victim had been involved in an abusive relationship with a man they identified as a Memphis firefighter.

"It's tragic. It's tragic," said Gray, who said he believed the victim had taken out an order of protection against the man in Mississippi.

Memphis police wouldn't release the names of the victim and suspect. A fire department spokesman couldn't confirm the suspect was a firefighter, although he confirmed there is a firefighter with the that name Gray provided.